Coaching supervision provides ongoing development and support to qualified Coaches ensuring that they continue to evolve their skills and maintain an ethical approach to their Coaching relationships. It is increasingly a requirement of the top professional Coaching bodies that Coaches work under recognised Supervision with qualified Coach Supervisors.

At a time when the coaching profession is still emerging it is an important message to ‘clients’ that professional coaches are taking their practice seriously not only through training and development but also through supervision - in that sense coaching supervision is a form of quality control.

Given the complexity and challenging nature of the role of a Coach it is important for professional coaches to have a place to reflect on their work with another experienced, specialist coach. This has the dual purpose of supporting the continuing learning and development for the coach, but also to give added protection for the ‘client’.

Nick Smith co-author, along with Dr Peter Hawkins, of Coaching, Mentoring and Organizational Consultancy: Supervision and Development

Assisting the coach to develop understanding and robust confidence when addressing their patterns of relating to self and others, including dimension of transference, counter-transference, personal conflicts, and so forth

The coach is likely to encounter many difficult and demanding situations, which at times may drain their confidence and resources. The supervision relationship can help restore a sense of competence and resilience.

The maintenance of standards is a key aspect of the supervisor's role, including a responsibility to take action if the coach is unable or unwilling to address serious professional/ ethical issues

The coach can develop their understanding of the theory and practice of coaching through dialogue with the supervisor and can address real scenarios in this supportive environment. They can stay abreast of the developments in their profession.

Enables organisation to demonstrate professional support to their Internal Coaches ensuring that a qualitative Coaching service to whomever the coach works with whether fellow colleagues of external clients.

Independent Coaches engage a supervisor to develop their practice and their own development and reassure their clients of their professional competence.

Organisations engage Supervision Coaches because they recognise the need to tangibly demonstrate their commitment to maintaining a high standard of coaching provision within their organisation by providing independent qualified support for their Coaches. The Supervision Coach can keep the organisation advised of the ongoing development needs.

As we know people seeking Coaching services can be overwhelmed by the options available and discerning clients will work their way through wealth of options using a check list of criteria. This will include seeking coaches with membership of reputable Coaching associations, accessing effective web site information, checking out the credentials of the coach such as reading testimonials from delighted clients and of course evidence that the potential coach has qualitative approach to their ongoing personal development may also play a positive part in their choice.

Demonstrating your own commitment to Coaching supervision will support you in marketing your business by providing additional reassurance to potential clients of your professional ethics and qualifications.

by telephone or face to face will allow an individual to evolve their own personal skills and address real client issues in a confidential forum. This ‘safe’ learning environment is beneficial to Coaches working in their own practice as well as for internal coaches.

may be offered to Coaches working within the same organisation and offer a combination of Master Classes on Coaching approaches and Real Play to address ‘authentic’ situations which arise in their client sessions and allow group members to gain feedback from the Supervisor and fellow Coaches. The Supervision Coach may work with Internal Coaches in both group and one to one forums

For more information on Coaching Supervision go www.coachingsupervisionacademy.com

Please take the opportunity to explore Coaching Supervision with a FREE Taster Session The telephone taster session will be for about 45 minutes and will include the opportunity to discuss Coaching Supervision and the opportunity for you to experience supervision in action working with a client scenario or another relevant aspect of your own practice To book a free session please email me your interest

Supervision with Anne Pink is enlightening and empowering. She has a unique way of drawing out the answers to questions you already hold deep inside. Her ability to frame questions and get to the heart of the matter is warm, encouraging and direct. She has such a wide range of life experience, training and wisdom that each session is like a private lesson with a master coach and mentor. Coaching supervision has vastly improved my client relationships, underlined my own knowledge and skill, and accelerated my work with clients to a rich, productive level. JP, London CPCC, ACC